Jan-Philipp Kolb
Tue Sep 08 20:58:58 2015
Source: The Independent
Data on the conflict in Syria - UNHCR
Analysis on Syrian Refugee Settlement Clinic Locations with R
Social index - Proportion of social benefits recipients in Berlin
Source: Tagesspiegel
… is relevant to get an overview of current developments
… is relevant to understand circumstances.
Map Of Touristiness
Tracking Taxis Across Manhattan
Blue points on the map are pictures taken by locals (people who have taken pictures in this city dated over a range of a month or more).
Red points are pictures taken by tourists (people who seem to be a local of a different city and who took pictures in this city for less than a month).
Yellow points are pictures where it can’t be determined whether or not the photographer was a tourist (because they haven’t taken pictures anywhere for over a month).
The target is to visualize social aspects in maps.
Source: Platform Linked Data Nederland
More examples
I want to….
Every participant should present his/her own maps.
Five departments - Survey Design and Methodology
Monitoring Society and Social Change
Data Archive for the Social Sciences
Computational Social Science
Knowledge Technologies for the Social Sciences
GESIS is:
Infrastructure Services for social sciences
over 250 employees at three sites (Mannheim, Cologne)
GESIS offers:
Consulting for research projects in all phases
Research based services
Consulting and research on …
R is a programming language and software environment for statistical computing and graphics. The R language is widely used among statisticians and data miners for developing statistical software and data analysis. Polls, surveys of data miners, and studies of scholarly literature databases show that R’s popularity has increased substantially in recent years.
Source: Wikipedia
Google Maps is a desktop web mapping service developed by Google. It offers satellite imagery, street maps, 360° panoramic views of streets (Street View), real-time traffic conditions (Google Traffic), and route planning for traveling by foot, car, bicycle, or public transportation. Google Maps offers an API that allows maps to be embedded on third-party websites.
Source: Wikipedia
OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world. Two major driving forces behind the establishment and growth of OSM have been restrictions on use or availability of map information across much of the world and the advent of inexpensive portable satellite navigation devices.
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GitHub is a Web-based Git repository hosting service, which offers all of the distributed revision control and source code management (SCM) functionality of Git as well as adding its own features. […] GitHub provides a Web-based graphical interface and desktop as well as mobile integration. It also provides access control and several collaboration features such as bug tracking, feature requests, task management, and wikis for every project.
Source: Wikipedia
R is the leading tool for statistics, data analysis, and machine learning. It is more than a statistical package; itÂ’s a programming language, so you can create your own objects, functions, and packages.
A big number (+5000) of (very specific) packages:
To load data - foreign, xlsx, RPostgresSQL
To write high performance R code - rcpp, data.table
install.packages("lme4")
library(lme4)
a <- runif(10000)
hist(a,col="blue")
It is possible to create nice graphics:
R can be used as GIS:
library(ggmap)
mapdist("Mannheim Hbf","Heidelberg Hbf")
## from to m km miles seconds minutes
## 1 Mannheim Hbf Heidelberg Hbf 18250 18.25 11.34055 1122 18.7
## hours
## 1 0.3116667
https://github.com/Japhilko/GeoData/tree/master/2015
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Thomas Girke - Programming in R
Use Reference cards, plot them and have them next to your computer
I will try to keep it simple and provide lots of resources.
Click here to download R for Windows.
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